The unwritten book, colloquies [&c.] by C.L. LordanPr. at Lordan's Romsey Press, 1871 |
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... noble and high- minded father of Hale , with so much force as to induce him to retire from the practice of his profession , to what can we look for a more effective confutation of their right to prevail , than to the character of his ...
... noble and high- minded father of Hale , with so much force as to induce him to retire from the practice of his profession , to what can we look for a more effective confutation of their right to prevail , than to the character of his ...
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... noble enjoyment ; - in few words , to correct the waywardness and wil- fulness of humanity by a pleasant " medicine of cherries . " He who kindles gratitude upon the altar of the heart , though he possess not the credentials of a priest ...
... noble enjoyment ; - in few words , to correct the waywardness and wil- fulness of humanity by a pleasant " medicine of cherries . " He who kindles gratitude upon the altar of the heart , though he possess not the credentials of a priest ...
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... noble origin Is breathed upon by HOPE's perpetual breath : " and surely the prime lineaments of the Poet's aim bear the stamp of nobility , and approve themselves " Majestic in their own simplicity . " I do not , of course , intend the ...
... noble origin Is breathed upon by HOPE's perpetual breath : " and surely the prime lineaments of the Poet's aim bear the stamp of nobility , and approve themselves " Majestic in their own simplicity . " I do not , of course , intend the ...
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... noble " who had been their reproach , this cannot but be told emphatically to his posthumous praise - that , moved mightily by " high objects , " it was yet the labor of his best energy to make conspicuous dis- regarded things , and ...
... noble " who had been their reproach , this cannot but be told emphatically to his posthumous praise - that , moved mightily by " high objects , " it was yet the labor of his best energy to make conspicuous dis- regarded things , and ...
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... noble but long - unapplauded work : now , indeed , may they who hallow his genius in their heart of hearts rejoice in this , his exultation , that by a " vision and a faculty divine " he has discerned and given effective prominency to ...
... noble but long - unapplauded work : now , indeed , may they who hallow his genius in their heart of hearts rejoice in this , his exultation , that by a " vision and a faculty divine " he has discerned and given effective prominency to ...
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admiration appear beauty become better body breath called cause character charm Church contemplation course dark Death deep delight divine earth effect eloquent entered expression face fair faith fancy Father feel flow flowers frequently glory hand hath hear heard heart heaven Hermione holy hope hour human imagination influence interest King language leaves less light living Lodge look Lord man's meaning memory Milton mind moral morning mother move Nature never Night noble object once opinion passed passion pleasant pleasure Poet Poet's poetic Poetry praise present regard religious remarked rest scene season seemed seen Shakspeare smile sometimes sorrow soul sound speak sphere spirit Spring sublime sweet things thou thought Truth turn voice Wordsworth young youth
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Page 145 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Page 162 - Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 138 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 146 - With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage and her myrtle bowers.
Page 113 - Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last.
Page 136 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Page 161 - His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first.
Page 160 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder : nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...
Page 121 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 77 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.